AOA News

Welcome to the official news hub for AOA on Capitol Hill 2025! Follow along with the AOA's exclusive coverage from optometry's single-largest federal advocacy event in Washington, D.C., and learn about the issues 600 of our colleagues championed on Capitol Hill.

Under pressure from the AOA, the lobbying arm of the vision benefit middleman (VBM) industry--the National Association of Vision Care Plans (NAVCP)--has been forced to acknowledge and withdraw inaccurate claims it had been making on Capitol Hill about optometry and pro-patient/pro-doctor legislation.

Your most common, controversial misperceptions about advocacy are explained as optometry's advocates play myth-busters ahead of the AOA's single-largest federal advocacy event, AOA on Capitol Hill.

The AOA's single-largest annual advocacy event in Washington, D.C., connects optometry's leaders with our nation's leaders. Learn more about the issues and how you can join, Sept. 28-30.

From statehouses to boardrooms, Main Street to Constitution Avenue, optometry's advocates are championing the message that it's time for a paradigm shift when it comes to vision benefit managers.

How the AOA and its volunteers are supporting their colleagues fighting unreasonable requests, downcoding, and claim denials.